By Denise Tessier A non-binding resolution, passed at a United Nations conference more than 20 years ago, is suddenly a “threat to homes (and the) property of our middle-class” in New Mexico. That’s according to the column, “Agenda 21 threat to homes, property of our middle-class,” which got the top spot on the Sunday Journal’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Koch brothers'
Fear and Loathing of ‘Agenda 21’
February 27th, 2013 · No Comments · environment, NM Legislature, role of government, Uncategorized
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Agenda 21·Albuquerque Journal·American Policy Center·climate change·Denise Tessier·Glenn Beck·GOP Platform·Harriet Parke·John Birch Society·Koch brothers·Media Matters·Rep. Tom Anderson·salon.com·Sarah Cypher·sustainability·tea party·Tom DeWeese·United Nations Rio Declaration
Plundering Employee Pensions and Promoting Plutocracy
December 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · economy, financial coverage, journalism, labor
By Arthur Alpert Boomers, I have read, feel nostalgic about Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and other Hostess company snacks. Me, I’m too old to partake of either the food or sentiment. So I’m perpetrating this third post on the Albuquerque Journal’s misreporting of Hostess’ dissolution only because there’s a new development that teaches us more about [...]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·bankruptcy·employee pension funds·George Will·Hostess Brands Inc.·Koch brothers·organized labor·Twinkies·Wall Street Journal
Expert Choreography
October 12th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, economy, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert The small role I played in the just-closed production of “Pride and Prejudice” at the Adobe required that I dance. Though I neither fell nor harmed my partner, I doubt my movements constituted dancing. Too bad I lacked the dexterity just demonstrated by Albuquerque Journal editors in coverage of the annual Domenici [...]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Domenici Public Policy Conference·Fred Astaire·Joseph Stiglitz·Koch brothers·laissez-faire·Pete Domenici·tax policy·The Price of Inequality
Voter Fraud, Orwell and Chutzpah
September 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · journalism, voting rights
By Arthur Alpert What’s most amazing about the Albuquerque Journal is not its daily assault on journalistic decency. No, it’s the nerve – chutzpah, if you prefer – with which management crusades against fairness. Today, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, the editors published an Op Ed criticizing certain journalists for selling out and quoting George Orwell. [...]
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·Brennan Center for Justice·Corbin Carson·Dan Boyd·George Orwell·Koch brothers·Natasha Kahn·National Center for Public Policy Research·NCPPR·Secretary of State Dianna Duran·voter fraud·voter ID·voter suppression·voting rights
Another Perspective on Heartland
September 11th, 2012 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert My colleague Denise Tessier’s Sept. 6 post under the headline “Journal Gives Discredited Heartland a Podium” is more evidence she’s a superior journalist, a superior critic of journalism and an unbelievably kind human. She concludes that the newspaper “allowed itself to be used” when it ran a letter to the editor from [...]
Tags:ALEC·American Legislative Exchange Council·Arthur Alpert·CATO·Denise Tessier·Heartland Institute·Heritage Foundation·Jeffrey Miron·Koch brothers·Lewis Powell·Manhattan Institute·Rio Grande Foundation·Sourcewath.org
A Double Standard Case Study
August 11th, 2012 · No Comments · budget policy, energy policy, environment, journalism, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert The Albuquerque Journal’s approach to right-wing ideology and organizations is simple. Do not cover them in the news pages unless you must. Minimize news that contradicts them. Do provide them a platform in the opinion pages. Make sure they get the most ink. The editors’ achievement in “killing two birds with one [...]
Tags:ALEC·Americans for Prosperity·Arthur Alpert·Cato Institute·Charles Koch·David Koch·Heritage Foundation·Koch brothers·Laurie Bennett·Medicaid·Richard A. Muller
A Triumph of Omission
August 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Credit the Albuquerque Journal with killing two birds with one stone. The “birds” are stories Journal management prefers not to cover because (I surmise) they contradict the newspaper’s editorial agenda. The first is the dangers of climate change or global warming as a result of human activity. The second is the political [...]
Tags:ALEC·American Legislative Exchange Council·Arthur Alpert·Charles Koch·climate change·David Koch·Denise Tessier·John Fleck·Koch brothers·Richard A. Muller
Keeping the Record Straight
July 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Fact Check, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Here’s an addendum to my last post. The Albuquerque Journal waited a day but did publish Wednesday, July 18 the Washington Post’s analysis of the Heather Wilson-Martin Heinrich race for Senate. Well, most of it. The original piece was very long and Journal editors cut it. Having compared the original (on the [...]
Tags:ALEC·Arthur Alpert·CATO·Crossroads GPS·Disclose Act·Heather Wilson·Joe Monahan·Koch brothers
Climate Change and the Unabomber
May 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier Last month’s Albuquerque Journal publication of the column, “Global Warming Is Just Propaganda,” is still generating reader response, with nearly a full page of letters in Tuesday’s (May 15) Journal commenting both on that column (as we did ) and on the published rebuttal by scientist Mark Boslough . In between, a [...]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Associated Press·climate change·Denise Tessier·Harrison "Jack" Schmitt·Heartland Institute·Koch brothers·Mark Boslough·oil and gas·Unabomber billboards·Winthrop Quigley
